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Fri, Feb 11, 2005

FEBRUARY 11-13, 2005

TIME WARNER CABLE
'An Evening With Ted Kooser' Airs Again Today

Ted Kooser's special Nebraska Lectures event from Tuesday, February 8 will be rebroadcast on Lincoln Time Warner channels 5 and 21 with several showings today. The event was co-presented by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the City of Lincoln and afterwards Kooser was presented with a key to the city by Mayor Colleen Seng.

AIR DATES
Friday, Feb. 11
10 a.m. on ch. 21
8:00 p.m. on ch. 5

LIED CENTER

NEBRASKA UNION AND NEBRASKA EAST UNION, FRI, FEB. 11, MON, FEB. 14
Horticulture Club Holds Annual Rose Sale

The UNL Horticulture Club will be holding their annual Valentine's Day Rose Sale at both the Nebraska Union and the East Campus Union on Friday, February 11 and Monday, February 14. The group does not accept phone or email orders.

The Horticulture Club gives students opportunities to socialize, learn and experience different aspects of this discipline.� They manage plant, flower, and Christmas tree sales; help landscape the campus grounds; and complete community for-hire landscaping projects.� They initiate fundraisers, take field trips, share experiences, and investigate developments unfolding in horticulture professions.

HORTICULTURE CLUB

Freshman Campus Leadership Associates Presents Funniest Story Contest

FCLA WEB SITE
FCLA Presents Funniest Story Contest

The Freshman Campus Leadership Associates is now taking entries on their website for a funniest freshman story contest. All current UNL students are eligible to enter the contest, but the embarrassing story, joke, or experience should be about freshman year. The story must be under 500 words and entries can be made on the FCLA website.

Up for grabs are over $700 in prizes from a variety of Lincoln businesses, and the winner of the contest will be selected by members of the Freshmen Campus Leadership Associates. The deadline to submit an entry is Friday, March 11. Entries with lewd or offensive language will not be accepted.

FCLA

QWEST CENTER OMAHA, SUN, FEB. 13, 1 - 4PM
UNL hosts 'Big Red Road Show' Feb. 13 at Qwest Center in Omaha

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present the "Big Red Road Show" at Qwest Center Omaha Feb. 13 from 1-4 p.m. More than 75 interactive exhibits, live performances, and appearances by Husker legends Roger Craig and Peaches James will be open to the public, and admission is free of charge. Sponsors for the event include: Channel 94.1 FM, Old Chicago, and Wells Fargo.

The Big Red Road Show is an open house event for students of all ages and adults to learn more about the academic and student life programs at the university. Representatives from UNL undergraduate colleges and graduate studies departments, and student affairs offices such as Scholarships and Financial Aid, Career Services, and Admissions will be on hand. Channel 94.1 FM will have a live radio remote on site.

Highlights of the event include:
•Autographs from former NFL All-Pro and Husker running back Roger Craig and former Husker and 2004 Big 12 Softball Player-of-the-Year Peaches James
•Exhibits, including chemistry demonstrations and N World
•Explore Nebraska Engineering
•Dances with Cranes
•PhD in Phunn
•Ask the Master Gardener
•Snakes of Nebraska
•Appearance by Lil' Red
•Kids Zone
•And dozens more...
•University prizes and giveaways

The following are the presentation and performance schedules:
Presentations: (occurring in Room 216, upstairs in the Qwest Center)
1:20 -- Scholarships and Financial Aid Presentation
2:20 -- High School Senior Presentation
3:20 -- High School Junior Presentation

Stage Performances:
1:30 -- Big Red Express Pep Band and Spirit Squad
2:15 -- Scarlet & Cream Singers
3:00 -- Jazz Ensemble

All attendees should enter the Qwest Convention Center doors. More information about the Big Red Road Show will be available on their web site.

BIG RED ROAD SHOW

WESTBROOK MUSIC BUILDING, SAT FEB. 12, 9AM
College of Fine & Performing Arts Presents Art Entrepreneur Day

The Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts in partnership with the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship, present 'Arts Entrepreneurship Day: Starting a Successful Business in the Arts.' Check-in for the program starts at 8:15 am and sessions start at 9 am. Cost for faculty and students is $10. Advance registration may be made through the Lied Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or 1-800-432-3231.

General sessions include, 'Your Art as a Product,' 'Who Will Buy What You Create?' 'Financial Management Basics,' and 'Legal Issues in the Arts' and there will be breakout sessions by successful entrepreneurs in Art & Graphic Design, Music & Dance, and Theatre & Film. Featured guest speakers include Donald Farber, nationally renowned lawyer to the arts and Bill Mangum, a one-person, fine-art 'industry' with a national following.

Presented by the Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts in partnership with the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship. More information is available at the Center for Entrepreneurship website.

FINE & PERFORMING ARTS | CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP

MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing this week at the Ross: A Very Long Engagement, Vera Drake

UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents the newest film from Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, A Very Long Engagement and Vera Drake, the newest film from highly acclaimed director Mike Leigh.

A Very Long Engagement, is based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. Screenplay adaptation by Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Guillaume Laurant. The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl.

It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiance, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

The title character in Mike Leigh's new movie Vera Drake is a middle-aged cleaning lady (Imelda Staunton) who races through her London working-class neighborhood singing to herself. The time is 1950, and though the dark and depressed city still suffers from wartime austerities Vera brings the light. The short, pudding-faced woman drops in on invalids, offers a few words of sympathy, and then makes her way to the luxurious flats of the wealthy, whose objets d'art and fireplace grills she dusts and polishes, sometimes on her knees. Vera gives of herself freely and easily, and it is precisely in that selfless and attentive way--brisk, efficient, consoling--that, using a tube and a noxious solution, she terminates one unwanted pregnancy after another.

Working with an almost preternatural calm, Leigh sets up the repressive and sexually inarticulate atmosphere of the time; Vera's furtive activity is part of an entire system of shadowy reticence and embarrassed dithering. And Leigh captures, without sentimentality or condescension, the grave and stoical spirit of the English working class. The movie is hushed and intense; it evokes an entire way of life.

More information is available at the Ross website.

MRRMAC | A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT | VERA DRAKE

327 KEIM HALL, FRI, FEB. 11, 3PM
Agronomy/Horticulture Seminar - 'On-the-Go Sensing Update'
Viacheslav Adamchuck, UNL

112 HAMILTON HALL, FRI, FEB. 11, 3:30PM
Chemistry Colloquium - 'Multinuclear Solid State NMR Studies of Ferroelectric Perovskites'
Robert Vold, Applied Science, College of William & Mary

115 AVERY HALL, FRI, FEB. 11, 4PM
Mathematics Colloquium - 'On the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture'
Jonathan Cutler, University of Nebraska

NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, SUN, FEB. 13, 1PM
UNL Garden Friends Lecture - 'Where the Sun Don't Shine: Shady Perennials'
Cindy Haynes, Iowa State University

UNITARIAN CHURCH, SUN, FEB. 13, 7PM
2005 Winter Lecture Series - Palestine and Israel, Religions, Homelands and Cultures - 'Ancient History of People, Cultures and Religions of Palestine and Israel'
Steve Burnett, UNL